LEADING FIGURES URGE BRITISH MUSEUM TO BACK HUMAN RIGHTS AHEAD OF BP-SPONSORED EGYPT EXHIBITION

Art Not Oil Wed, 12/10/2022 - 4:42pm

From our good friends at Culture Unstained (11.10.22):

  • Ahead of new BP-sponsored Egypt exhibition, British Museum Director is urged not to “celebrate Egypt’s cultural past while ignoring the human rights situation in the present”
  • Letter signed by 70+ signatories including leading cultural figures and climate organisations calls on Museum to back call for release of political prisoners ahead of COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh
  • “Read-in” staged outside exhibition calls for release of Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah who has been on hunger strike for over 190 days.
  • Representatives of oil sponsor BP and Egyptian government expected to attend official opening of ‘Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt tonight

Read more here:

https://cultureunstained.org/2022/10/11/leading-figures-urge-british-mu…